Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally managed to baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note, the bishop said there was no hurry: the general would probably live for quite a spell yet. In reply, Grant...
...proves it. And what is this neo-Puritanism? It is an authoritarian morality that is completely intolerant of opposition; a prudishness in support of that morality; a passive and negative philosophy of life, purporting to leave all to a God that is no less prudish (the doctrine of original sin), no less authoritarian (a jealous God unmindful that he created men with free wills) . . . The remedy for "growing intellectual confusion" is neither in Gnosticism nor Puritanism. The one is without a heart, the other is without a head. One offers answers, the other offers dilemmas. The solution of this mess...
...projects, must close the gap. often found in Italy, between the church and a hard-pressed, often desperate working population. The fact that 19% of Italy voted Communist in the last nationwide provincial elections does not unduly depress him. Says he: "The only thing that cannot be Christianized is sin...
...Author Bruckberger finds another moral in Mary Magdalene's conversion-she also proved the hollowness of her Pharisee countrymen. "Simon the Pharisee believes himself 'pure,' and thereby he becomes a sinner, impenitent because his sin consists in believing that he is without sin. Mary Magdalene knows herself, recognizes herself, proclaims herself 'impure' and a sinner; this is why she attains the wellspring of all purity. In this humility and [in] this contrition is she justified...
...revolution-the greatest ever to have taken place in the moral order-the Pharisees could not understand. For them, justice lay in the practice of the Law, the absence of all material breach of this Law. Nor could the Greeks understand any better, because for them there was no sin, there were only ugly actions, but actions which did not touch God himself . . . The Pharisees betrayed the Law itself, the first commandment of which is the love of God. And the Greeks knew not true wisdom, which is to attune one's heart with...